Fordham University School of Business - Aries Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Fordham activities are the means of cultivat- ing sociability in the student and refining social interaction generally. They foster group partici- pation and nurture the ability to ioin amiably with associates for the attainment of common ends. Sports train the student for industry by test- ing whether he can confront a problem, work with it, and achieve a solution. They infuse in the student experience with crisis and confi- dence in dealing with the pressures of this age of anxiety and complexity. Such attributes in personnel are as important to industry as capi- tal and plant and equipment. If it is true that wisdom can not be taught, the truly wise is he who has profited from the most efficacious of teachers, experience. Our purpose at Fordham has been to absorb all we were offered in the classroom. But our specific goal of American lndustry demands much more than that. lt demands the experience and last- ing character traits we derive from that part of academic life that lies just outside the class- room.

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ARIES THEME-AMERICAN INDUSTRY Our nation is a vast commercial empire that extends across a continent from ocean to ocean. lt is a land that has achieved greatness and prosperity through all manner of industry, from the prodigious operations of the General Motors and Fords of Detroit to the modest en- terprises of shoemakers on the lower east side of New York. We are a people born to and reared upon economic individualism and com- petition. The American lndustry that sprang from these qualities has been our life blood from colonial days, nourishing us through good times and bad, through internal conflicts and world wars and through all of the new free- doms, new deals and fair deals that have challenged a growing nation. For us, the Class of l96l of the Fordham University School of Business, American lndus- try has been a special goal, and for many of us in our young and pardonable enthusiasms a roseate dream. But in more reflective mo- ments we do see American lndustry as some- times less than the benign patron of the good life. We do then evaluate it as the human insti- tution it is, an institution spurred by human as- pirations and checked by human foibles, a restless composite of good and evil, success and failure, care-releasing wealth and stifling destitution. Perhaps an industrial system that has reared a vigorous people and created a world-wide economic titan cannot be pure and angelic, in the nature of things it may have to be of baser metal and cruder temper. Yet if we can not, in all sincerity, regard American lndustry as universally iust and righteous, we can arm that during its historical course the good has far outweighed the evil. Now a school is intrinsically a preparation for life. lt guides its students towards mental and emotional maturity, and tempers them for the rigors of life which they must inevitably face. Specifically, the Fordham University School of Business is a preparation for Ameri- can lndustry. To meet this specific objective, our maior fields of study -- Accounting, Economics, Fi- nance, Management, Marketing - reflect the light of the not so distant future and prepare the way for it. The liberal studies-Theology, Philosophy, Literature, History - reflect the light of a past from which, as well-rounded college graduates, we are not cut off. Supple- menting this curriculum is the program of honors, organizations, activities, and sports that help to make Fordham not only a place of learning but a way of life. The curricular preparation needs little ex- planation, the components of the professional studies form the very nucleus of American ln- dustry, and the liberal studies shape the whole man who is as valued and valuable in business as in life. The connections of the extra-curricu- lar program with American lndustry are not so obvious. Honors are the fruit of academic excellence. They are incentives to a higher dedication and a higher perfection. The recipient of an honor has contributed his utmost towards the obiec- tive which he has chosen to pursue. So hon- ored, he stands well above his contemporaries, a monument of leadership and accomplish- ment. Nor do honors have importance only in academic life. They prepare students for the acceptance of the burdens that excellence and accomplishment in higher business life not only request but demand. Organizations at Fordham are calculated to develop in the student an awareness of respon- sibility for the group and a willingness to ac- cept the tasks that must be done. They are American lndustry in miniature, a taste of the future and a workshop of leadership.

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